Here are websites teachers may find useful. They include Venn diagram models as well as other tools that can be used to create customized graphic organizers, rubrics, puzzles and graphs. There's also a site with blank maps and a top-notch online dictionary:
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS AND GRAPHS
Printables: Has graphs and graphic organizers including column charts, time line, Venn diagram, several writing charts such as a story web, event map, main idea, vocabulary practice and many more.
Education Place Graphic Organizers: Includes clock, word clustering, flow chart, observation chart, persuasion map, problem-solution chart, sequence chart, spider map, time line, tree chart, Venn diagram and more.
The Write Site Graphic Organizers: Covers several charts for writing exercises such as fact and opinion, paragraphs, story parts, newspaper analysis, the five "w's," and more.
VennDiagram.com: Includes directions on how to create your own Venn diagram as well as a database of existing diagrams.
Label Me Printouts: Provided by enchantedlearning.com. Covers a vast number of printable pictures and maps that can be labeled. Some topics: biology, animals, astronomy, geography, music, ELL, anatomy, plants, geology, weather, United States, art, math, Spanish, French, German, flags, clock, compass, and many more.
Create a Graph: Provided by Students' Classroom. Allows users to choose a graph type and insert their own data.
RubiStar Rubrics: A tool to help users create their own rubrics. Areas include oral projects, multi-media, math, research and writing, reading, art, work skills, science and music.
TeAchnology Rubrics: Provides step by step guidance on how to create your own rubric.
PUZZLES
Puzzlemaker: Provided by discoveryschool.com. Users choose the puzzle format from a drop-down list and then insert their own words to create customzied puzzles.
DICTIONARY
Onelook.com: Excellent online dictionary that is very simple to use and provides definitions from a variety of sources.
TEACHER TRAINING VIDEOS
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com :These videos were created for teachers to help them incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology.
*WEB TOOLS FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PROJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS
Zoho Show (http://show.zoho.com/login.do ) is an alternative to Google Docs.Zoho is a free online presentation tool that has a large library of themes, clipart, shapes and more.You can incorporate sound and video clips. You cannot, however, edit a presentation simultaneously with a partner like you can in Google Docs. To get started, view the “Zoho start” PDF at the bottom of this page.To get help with incorporating images and video clips into your presentation, view the “Zoho – Using images & video" PDF. For a demonstration you can view the “Check Out the Demo Video” on the webpage above.
Animoto (http://animoto.com) allows you to create short videos easily.You provide the pics, find the music, load to Animoto and everything is automatically mixed.Nice addition/alternative to slide presentations.Example from Jen Buckley, a South View student:http://animoto.com/play/GMKKdgOaCkEMwbxq1fefqg
Toondoo (http://www.toondoo.com/) provides kids with the opportunity to create their own editorial cartoon or graphic novel. Toondoo has a feature that allows you to upload your own photos to add to the cartoon. They have added some protection features as well so that you can keep images private or share only with friends.Others:ComiqsRead-Write-Think
National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/filmmaker.html) allows young filmmakers to drag clips, sounds, music, and captions to the timeline area. On the right, they'll find an Animals A-Z reference tool that provides animal profiles, Fast Facts, a media gallery, and links to related critters.
Flowgram (http://www.flowgram.com/ ) users can create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, PowerPoint and more withyour voice, notes and highlights.Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more.
Gliffy (http://www.gliffy.com/) allows you to create concept maps, flow charts, diagrams and floorplans. World Language teachers can have kids label floorplans in Gliffy in the language they are teaching.
Audacity(If you download Audacity, be sure to also download the LAME MP3 Encoder so it can export your file as an MP3.)
*These ideas are from Wendy Wolfe, social studies teacher at Totino GraceHigh School in Fridley, and Joyce Valenza, library media specialist at SpringfieldTownshipHigh School in Erdenheim, Pennsylvania. Joyce is also a writer for the online School Library Journal.Many more examples of student work and other super sites located at Wendy’s wiki:http://tech4class.pbwiki.com/elearning and Joyce’s blog: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html#1680034168
ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOR PROFESSIONALS
Gale’s Professional Collection:Full text periodicals (be sure to check the "to articles with text" box on the Advanced Search page) to use for advanced degree research.
EBSCO's Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
EBSCOhost:An array of databases that includes MasterFile Premier and MegaFILE, but also includes thousands of articles from the following databases as well.Tip: Check box "full text” for all of the databases below:
Alt HealthWatch(complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness)
Health Source – Consumer Edition(richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide)
Health Source:Nursing/Academic Edition(scholarly full text journal articles focusing on many medical disciplines)
Academic Search Premier(provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles)
Business Source Premier(the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals)
ERIC(education journals containing more than 1,300,000 records)
Professional Development Collection(highly specialized collection of520 high quality education journals)
Regional Business News(full text for 80 regional business publications)
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts(journals covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, information management, etc.)
MAS Ultra – School Edition(popular magazines for high school students)
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia(25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas)
Middle Search Plus(popular magazines for middle school students)
Primary Search(magazines for elementary students)
Infomine – Scholarly Internet Research Collections. *Note: If you want only "free" hits, on the "Advanced Search" webpage select "Free" under "Resource Access."
ERIC - The world’s largest digital library of education literature.
Academic Earth – Lectures and classes online from top universities.Part of their mission statement: “We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.”
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